Streaming News Roundup: Dueling ‘House of the Dragon’ Season 2 Trailers, ‘Heartstopper’ Season 3 Announcement, More
“House of the Dragon” Releases Dueling Season 2 Trailers
Are you Team Green or Team Black?
HBO has released two new trailers for the upcoming second season of its “Game of Thrones” spinoff series “House of the Dragon.”
The new trailers, which set the series’ return on the cabler and Max late this spring, respectively focus on Princess Rhaenrya Targaryen (played by Emma D’Arcy), Prince Daemon (Matt Smith), and their black faction, and on Alicent Hightower’s (Olivia Cooke) green King’s Landing team of Alicent.
The fantasy drama series, based on author George R.R. Martin’s book “Fire & Blood,” details the history of House Targaryen nearly 200 years before the events of “Game of Thrones.” Season 1 followed Rhaenyra in her fight to be named the chosen heir of King Viserys I (Patty Considine) and the lead-up to the Dance of the Dragons.
Watch the Official Black Trailer below:
The returning cast includes D’Arcy, Cooke, Smith, Ewan Mitchell, Eve Best, Rhys Ifans, Steve Toussaint, Fabien Frankel, and Tom Glynn-Carney. New additions include Tom Taylor, Clinton Liberty, Jamie Kenna, Kieran Bew, Tom Bennett, and Vincent Regan, among others.
Watch the Official Green Trailer below:
“House of the Dragon” Season 2 will premiere on Sunday, June 16, on HBO and Max.
Netflix Announces “Heartstopper” Season 3
It may still be seven months away, but Netflix is jumpstarting “Heartstopper” fans with news of the LGBTQ+ series’ third season.
The streamer announced the eight-episode Season 3 of the hit series will premiere in October with the exact date to be announced later.
The third season will continue to focus on Charlie (Joe Locke) and Nick’s (Kit Connor) relationship as it deepens. In Season 3, per the official logline, “Charlie would like to tell Nick that he loves him. Nick also has something important to say to Charlie. As the summer holiday ends and the months race on, the friends begin to realize that the school year will come with both its joys and its challenges. As they learn more about each other and their relationships, plan social events, and parties, and start thinking about university choices, everyone must learn to lean on those they love when life doesn’t go to plan.”
Watch the Season 3 announcement for “Heartstopper” below:
“Heartstopper” also stars Yasmin Finney, William Gao, Corinna Brown, Kizzy Edgell, and Tobie Donovan with Darragh Hand expected to join the cast.
Paramount+ Releases Surprise “Ark: Survival Evolved” Series
The long-in-limbo “Ark: Survival Evolved” animated adaptation has come home at last.
In a surprise drop, Paramount+ released the first six episodes of “Ark: The Animated Series” Season 1, with the remaining seven episodes due out on a later date to be announced.
News of an “Ark” animated series first came out at the 2020 Video Game Awards with a surprise trailer. A second trailer was released in 2022, despite the series still not having a platform.
Watch the promo for “Ark: The Animated Series” below:
Based on Studio WildCard’s action-adventure survival game, the animated adaptation follows 21st-century paleontologist Helena Walker (voiced by Madeleine Madden) as she “finds herself resurrected on a mysterious primeval island populated by prehistoric beasts [and] must learn to survive with new allies from throughout time, while trying to uncover the true nature of their strange new world.”
The A-list voice cast of the new animated series also features Michelle Yeoh, Russell Crowe, Gerard Butler, David Tennant, Jeffrey Wright, Elliot Page, Vin Diesel, Karl Urban, Zahn McClarnon, Devery Jacobs, Deborah Mailman, Ragga Ragnars, Malcolm McDowell, Monica Bellucci, and Alan Tudyk.
“Migration” Will Begin Streaming Next Month
Birds of a feather flock together! Illumination’s “Migration” will fly to Peacock next month on Friday, April 19.
Watch the trailer for “Migration” below:
Written by Mike White (“The White Lotus,” “School of Rock”), “Migration” follows the Mallard family “as they embark on a journey south for the winter to Jamaica via New York City, only for their well-laid plans to go awry, leading to new friends, and unknown horizons.”
The all-star voice cast is led by Kumail Nanjiani, Elizabeth Banks, Caspar Jennings, Tresi Gazal, Danny DeVito, Keegan-Michael Key, Awkwafina, Carol Kane, David Mitchell, Isabela Merced, and others.
Demetri Martin Gets Multi-Special Deal At Netflix
Preoccupied by other projects like Cartoon Network’s “We Bare Bears,” it’s been more than five years since Demetri Martin’s last standup special, but the comedian is back on stage with not one but two new specials at Netflix.
Watch the trailer for “Demetri Deconstructed” below:
Part of a multi-special deal, the first special, titled “Demetri Deconstructed,” will premiere globally on the platform on Tuesday, April 2, setting the stage for Martin’s first special since 2018’s “The Overthinker” with the streamer.
Martin is currently on his multi-city national tour “The Joke Machine.” A title and premiere date for the second special will be announced later.
AMC Releases Extended “Interview with the Vampire” Season 2 Trailer
Anne Rice’s “Interview With the Vampire,” tape two.
AMC has released the first extended trailer for its critically acclaimed fantasy series, which will return for its second season on Sunday, May 12 on AMC and AMC+.
Watch the trailer for “Interview With the Vampire” Season 2 below:
Jacob Anderson leads the cast as vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac as he recounts his life story to journalist Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian) in the year 2022. Picking up from the bloody events in New Orleans in 1940 detailed in the first season, Season 2 will see Louis tell of his adventures in Europe, a quest to discover Old World Vampires, and the Theatre Des Vampires in Paris.
The series also stars Sam Reid, Assad Zaman, Delainey Hayles, and Ben Daniels, among others.